Mozarthaus St. Gilgen

About the museum

The Mozarthaus in St. Gilgen on Lake Wolfgang is the village’s former district court. Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl, grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was the district judge here from 1716 and had the building remodelled around 1720. On 25 December 1720 his daughter Anna Maria Pertl, later Mozart’s mother, was born in this house.

Mozart’s sister Maria Anna, known as Nannerl, married the St. Gilgen district judge Johann Baptist von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg in 1784 and lived for 17 years in her mother’s birthplace, where she raised her children and stepchildren. Wolfgang Amadeus himself never visited St. Gilgen.

Until 2002 the house served as a district court. The cultural association Mozartdorf St. Gilgen, founded in 2001, bought it in 2005 and converted it in 2008/09 into a cultural and event centre. On the ground floor, a small memorial, set up as a provisional arrangement, commemorates Anna Maria and Maria Anna Mozart, with a reading corner, a multilingual film and audio texts via QR code. The upper rooms are used for concerts, exhibitions, seminars and weddings.

Highlights

• Birthplace of Anna Maria Mozart, the composer’s mother
• Home of Nannerl Mozart from 1784 to 1801
• Memorial with film, reading corner and audio texts
• Lakeside garden on the shore of Lake Wolfgang

Permanent exhibition

• Gedenkstätte Mozarthaus – Small memorial room on the ground floor about Anna Maria and Maria Anna Mozart and the history of the house, with a reading corner, film and audio texts; designed as a growing project.

Founded

2001

Operated by

Kulturverein Mozartdorf St. Gilgen

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

No fixed admission price; the non-profit association welcomes a voluntary donation. Members of the cultural association have free admission to all exhibitions.

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Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Corporate events
• Weddings / ceremonies

Up to 180 guests.

Falkenstein Hall in the attic with lake view (up to 140 people for a gala, up to 160 people with concert seating), Fürstenzimmer and gallery on the 1st floor, and the lakeside garden of about 2,000 m² for receptions; weddings, seminars, corporate events, concerts.

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